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Looking good gets the goodies






If it weren' t for other people would anyone ever anxiously fug their sweater down, peer at an imaginary blemish in the mirror and ask " Do I really look all right? "

Whereas intelligence can be tested on paper, looks are tested only by your experiences with other people. Your appearance affects how other people behave towards you and probably how you behave in return.

Certain qualities are attributed to looks such as the stereotype of the fat, jolly person or the toll powerful man. If you are fat and sad or tall and insecure people have to readjust their first false impression before they try to cheer you up or reassure you.

Yet the interferences made about such characteristics as sallow complexion (hostility), blond hair (goodness and virtue), high forehead (intelligence) are not generally supported by scientific testing of their owners. (Although some people do fit the stereotype: for example short-sighted people do tend to average higher IQ scores.)

Attractiveness is the key word. Time and again in experiments people judged as attractive by their peers prove to have the edge on others. People sometimes said they preferred intelligence and 288 charm to looks, but when their behaviour was tested they showed preferences for attractive people as friends, dates, sex-partners and spouses. In most cases they are favoured by juries in mock trials, and even attractive mental patients get preferential treatment from nurses.

But what is attractive? In scientific terms it's usually measured by experiments in which photographs are shown to peers who then rate them. Outside the laboratory you only have to look at people whose raw material doesn't fit the stereotype (for example Barbora Streisand) to see that many people can be attractive by virtue of self-confidence, talent and self-projection.

Clothes and make-up play their part, too: a woman deliberately dressed and made-up to look physically attractive influenced the opinion of a male audience more than when she appeared before them as her unadorned self.

Is it worth the effort? If you are someone who feels good when they look good (and not everyone does), people probably respond to your glow. Then your self-esteem goes up and while it's high you beam out more welcome signals that elicit more positive responses and so on. In reverse gear, when depression sets in, your keep off signs which deflect people, you feel worthless and you're in a downward spiral.

1. Make sure you know the words:


peer

blemish

reassure

readjust

sallow

reverse

date

preferential

unadorned

beam out

glow

rate

elicit mock

deflect trial

downward

virtue


2. Find all possible derivatives to the following words. (Consult the dictionary if it is necessary).


attractive

hostility

reassure

preferential

insecure

readjust

deliberately

3. Find synonyms to the following words.


blemish

peer

date

trial

jolly

sallow

mock

elicit

deflect

keep off

downwards


 

4. Translate the following into English using your active vocabulary.

1) Кинокритики оценивают фильмы по шкале от одного до десяти.

2) Он такой неухоженный, более того он еще и курит! Мне кажется, это и делает его цвет лица таким болезненным.

3) Самый лучший способ подбодрить себя – это подбодрить кого-нибудь другого в нужный момент.

4) Этот фильм как раз соответствует стереотипу о компьютерных технологиях следующего поколения.

5) Если долго всматриваться в свое отражение в зеркале, то обязательно найдешь кучу недостатков/изъянов.

6) Человек должен выглядеть и чувствовать себя прекрасно и излучать внутренний свет, а не отражать внешний. И тогда люди ответят на это «свечение».

 

 






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